Otaku Culture Otaku Spaces and the Future: Maid Cafés, Tourism and Soft Power
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledThere is a category of tourist that the Japanese government's tourism promotional agency, the J...
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Otaku Culture Japanese Video Game Culture: From Famicom to Global Dominance
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledOn July 15, 1983, Nintendo released a home video game console in Japan. The device — a red and ...
Otaku Culture Vocaloid and Virtual Idols: Hatsune Miku and the Synthetic Star
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledOn August 31, 2007, the music software company Crypton Future Media released a product for the ...
Otaku Culture Figurines and Collectibles: The Material Culture of Otaku
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledThere is a specific phenomenon in the lives of serious figure collectors that people outside th...
Otaku Culture Doujinshi: Japan’s Fan Creation Culture
By Yoshi | Japan UnveiledTwice a year, on the last weekend of December and the first weekend of August, the Tokyo Big Si...